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Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000
sec.514Order for person who fails to comply with reporting notice
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### sec.514 Order for person who fails to comply with reporting notice
This section applies if a police officer reasonably believes that a person has failed to comply with a reporting notice.
A police officer may apply to a magistrate in the approved form for an order authorising a police officer to detain the person to perform any forensic procedure to which the reporting notice relates for the time reasonably necessary to perform the procedure.
A magistrate may make the order if the magistrate is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the person failed to comply with a reporting notice and making the order is justified in the circumstances.
The person named in the application is not entitled to be given notice of, or to be heard on, the application.
A qualified person for the forensic procedure to which the order relates may perform the procedure on the person.
In this section—
reporting notice means an identifying particulars notice, DNA sample notice or non-medical examination notice.
s 514 ins 2003 No. 49 s 10 (amd 2003 No. 92 s 28B )
amd 2006 No. 26 s 3 sch 1
(sec.514-ssec.1) This section applies if a police officer reasonably believes that a person has failed to comply with a reporting notice.
(sec.514-ssec.2) A police officer may apply to a magistrate in the approved form for an order authorising a police officer to detain the person to perform any forensic procedure to which the reporting notice relates for the time reasonably necessary to perform the procedure.
(sec.514-ssec.3) A magistrate may make the order if the magistrate is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the person failed to comply with a reporting notice and making the order is justified in the circumstances.
(sec.514-ssec.4) The person named in the application is not entitled to be given notice of, or to be heard on, the application.
(sec.514-ssec.5) A qualified person for the forensic procedure to which the order relates may perform the procedure on the person.
(sec.514-ssec.6) In this section— reporting notice means an identifying particulars notice, DNA sample notice or non-medical examination notice.